I’m going to stop referring to people as having “strayed from the Church” now that it’s clear to me that the it’s the Church that strayed from the people.
A Christianity that believes it needs a political party, president, legislation, and a nation to ensure its survival is a Christianity that actually dethrones Jesus as savior of the nations and advances a belief that Jesus needs a nation to be his savior.
Jesus is Lord. Period.
Once upon a time I thought I was done with Christianity.
But the reality was I was just done with the institutional, corporatized, gentrified, politicized, culturally exclusive version of it.
Leaving the Nazarene denomination was the best decision I made. There is a reason why young people are leaving. I was able to flourish in my faith after realizing that what we know of God goes far beyond rules and a manual that elders refuse to change.